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Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:00 AM

Oh, say can you care?

The flap over a Spanish-language national anthem.
Tim Grieve

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  • Tuesday, May 2, 2006 09:52 AM

    Another time, another nation

    Watching fellow Americans getting worked up over such trivia might have been funny before the Bush Administration was emboldened enough by the patriotism following 9/11 to freely spy on its own citizens and to declare "enemy combatants" in a fictious war. Now that we know any of us can be held without charges or trial for years on end, in a setting where torture is inflicted with impunity, is "who gives a shit" the best response of the remaining 31%?

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